by corneliuscorps | Jun 19, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection
This week includes two milestones to remember in our nation’s racial history. June 19 is our national holiday of Juneteenth. The first short video posted below is a good summary of the meaning of this important day. It is a time to reflect on both our...
by corneliuscorps | Jun 5, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection
“Fear” is a word that is pervasive in our nation today. From immigrants and refugees (documented and undocumented), to public educators, to foreign aid organizations, to government agencies, to people of nearly every minority group; actions by the Trump...
by corneliuscorps | May 29, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection
This week marked the 5th anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, MN. It became a major inflection point that led to a time of “racial reckoning” in which national attention was paid to the reality of systemic racism in...
by corneliuscorps | May 22, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection
This week marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925). Many of us including most white people were taught to see him as the opposite of Martin Luther King, Jr. during the turbulent 1960’s. Malcolm was portrayed as...
by corneliuscorps | May 15, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection
The dictionary defines the word “refugee” as follows: “a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.” There are millions of refugees around the world who live in horrible...
